The theme of stab-in-the-back was articulated in 1919 most prominently by General Erich Ludendorff, one of the two top German commanders.

* 1919 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police fire a volley into a crowd of unemployed war veterans, killing two, during the Winnipeg General Strike.

In August 1919, Hoover became head of the Bureau of Investigation's new General Intelligence Division — also known as the Radical Division because its goal was to monitor and disrupt the work of domestic radicals.

* 1919 – The Winnipeg General Strike begins.

On 8 April 1919, naval Admiral W. H. G. Bullard and Captain Stanford C. Hooper met with executives of the General Electric Corporation ( GE ) and asked them to discontinue selling the company's Alexanderson alternators ( used in the high-power AM radio transmitters of that era ) to the British-owned Marconi Company, and to its subsidiary, the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America.

The incorporation of the assets of Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America ( including David Sarnoff ,) the Pan-American Telegraph Company, and those already controlled by the United States Navy led to a new publicly held company formed by General Electric ( which owned a controlling interest ) on 17 October 1919.

The Black Army, which counted numerous Jews and Ukrainian peasants in its ranks, played a key part in halting General Denikin's White Army offensive towards Moscow during 1919, later ejecting Cossack forces from the Crimea.

In addition, classical composers were influenced by the form with, for example, Igor Stravinsky's solo piano work Piano-Rag-Music from 1919, and Claude Debussy's Golliwogg's Cakewalk ( from the 1908 Piano Suite Children's Corner ), and General Lavine ( from his Preludes ).

Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck | General von Lettow-Vorbeck in Dar es Salaam with a British Officer ( left ) and German Officer ( right ), March 1919

In his final despatch of May 1919, General Jacob van Deventer placed the German forces at the commencement of 1916 at 2, 700 whites and 12, 000 blacks.

However, in June 1919 Tsaritsyn was captured by White forces of General Denikin, which left the city in January 1920.

In 1919, the first candidate to declare for the GOP nomination was General Leonard Wood.

* July 21 – Milan Rastislav Štefánik, Slovak General, politician, and astronomer ( d. 1919 ).

In 1919, he became an aide-de-camp to General John J. Pershing.

The raids and arrests occurred in November 1919 and January 1920 under the leadership of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer.

In June 1919, Attorney General Palmer told the House Appropriations Committee that all evidence promised that radicals would " on a certain day … rise up and destroy the government at one fell swoop.

On August 1, 1919, Palmer put 24-year-old J. Edgar Hoover in charge of a new division of the Justice Department's Bureau of Investigation, the General Intelligence Division.

Labor History Encyclopedia for the Pacific Northwest, a collection of resources on IWW activity in the region, including their role in the 1919 Seattle General Strike and farm worker organizing in the early 1900s.

In March 1919, President Wilson asked Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer for his opinion on clemency for Debs but offered his own: " I doubt the wisdom and public effect of such an action.

* James Wolfe-Murray ( 1853 – 1919 ), British military officer and Chief of the Imperial General Staff in the 1910s

After receiving some support ( but even more promises ) from General Malleson, the British withdrew in April 1919, and the Tashkent Soviet resumed control of the city and in July 1919, when the city was renamed Poltoratsk ( Полторацк ) after a local revolutionary.

* 1919 – Arthur Stanley Eddington uses a solar eclipse to successfully test Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity

He was not the head of the French military mission which had arrived earlier ( 1919 ) and was headed by General Henrys.

The year 1919 saw a number of general strikes throughout North America, including two that were considered significant — the Seattle General Strike, and the Winnipeg General Strike.

A Resolution under the Church of England Assembly ( Powers ) Act 1919, directing that the Measure should be presented to His Majesty, was passed in the House of Lords by a large majority.

In November 1919, the newly elected Weimar National Assembly initiated a Untersuchungsausschuß für Schuldfragen to investigate the causes of the World War and Germany's defeat.

The only exception has been Hal Colebatch, a member of the Legislative Council who accepted the premiership in April 1919 on the understanding that an Assembly seat would be found for him, only to resign a month later when no seat could be found.

During the interwar period of Poland's independence, the first Legislative Sejm of 1919, a Constituent Assembly, passed the Small Constitution of 1919, which introduced a parliamentary-republic system and proclaimed the principle of the Sejm ’ s sovereignty.

On May 23, 1919, the Southern Californians ' efforts were rewarded when Governor William D. Stephens signed Assembly Bill 626 into law, which turned the campus into the Southern Branch of the University of California and added its general undergraduate program, the College of Letters and Science .< ref >

In the autumn of 1919, elections for the Romanian Constituent Assembly were held in Bessarabia ; 90 deputies and 35 senators were chosen.

On 21 January 1919, Sinn Féin MPs ( who became known as Teachta Dála, TDs ) refusing to sit in the British House of Commons at Westminster, assembled in Dublin and formed a single chamber Irish parliament called Dáil Éireann ( Assembly of Ireland ).

The period in German history from 1919 to 1933 is commonly referred to as the Weimar Republic, as the Republic's constitution was drafted here because the capital, Berlin, with its street rioting after the 1918 German Revolution, was considered too dangerous for the National Assembly to use it as a meeting place.

On 21 January 1919, Sinn Féin's MPs who were not imprisoned assembled in the Round Room of the Mansion House in Dublin and formed themselves into an Assembly of Ireland, known in the Irish language as Dáil Éireann.

He served as a clerk of the Judicial Committee for the 1919 Session of the California State Assembly ( 1919 – 1920 ), and as the deputy city attorney of Oakland ( 1920 – 25 ).

Their first son Frederick Madison Roberts ( 1879 – 1952 )-Sally Hemings ' and Jefferson's great-grandson-was the first person of known African-American ancestry elected to public office on the West Coast: he served in the California State Assembly from 1919 to 1934.

From 1919 to 1920 he was a member of the Württemberg Constituent National Assembly, and from 1920 to 1922 the Württemberg Landtag.

Since the Dáil was first established in 1919 it has also been described variously as a " National Assembly ", a " Chamber of Deputies " and a " House of Representatives ".

Under the Church of England Assembly ( Powers ) Act 1919 a Measure of the General Synod of the Church of England becomes law once it has received Royal Assent in the same way as an Act of Parliament.

The term continued to be used after this First Dáil and was used to refer to later members of the Irish Republic's single chamber Dáil Éireann ( or " Assembly of Ireland ") ( 1919 – 1922 ), members of the Free State Dáil ( 1922 – 1937 ), and of the modern Dáil Éireann.

Under the terms of the Government of India Act 1919, Viceroys shared some limited aspects of their authority with the Central Legislative Assembly, one of the first steps of reform as India progressed towards home rule under the Government of India Act 1935, independence as a Dominion in 1947, and ultimately the declaration of a republic in 1949.

In January 1919 a Unilateral Declaration of Independence by the provisional Sinn Féin First Dáil proclaimed an Irish Republic, later abolished in 1921 after the Anglo-Irish War under the terms of the Anglo-Irish Treaty which agreed on the Partition of Ireland and established the Irish Free State with its parliament the Dáil Éireann ( in the Irish Language ), the ' Assembly of Ireland '.

Effective 21 October 1918, the Imperial Council parliamentarians representing the empire's ethnically German provinces formed a Provisional National Assembly for their paralyzed rump state and appointed veteran party leader Karl Seitz as one of their three largely coequal chairmen ( 21 October 1918-16 February 1919 ).

The assembly presidents ( Seitz, Franz Dinghofer and Johann Nepomuk Hauser ) continued to serve as acting heads of state until 4 March 1919, when the National Constituent Assembly collectively assumed these functions.

Anton David ( 4 March 1919-5 March 1919 ) and Seitz ( 5 March 1919-10 November 1920 ) were the presidents of the National Constituent Assembly.

His actions during the nation-wide strike, his advancement of membership in the League of Nations, and his weak position in the Vorarlberg question resulted in a meager count of votes for Calonder's reconfirmation by the Federal Assembly in December 1919.

On February eleventh, 1919, five days after the Constituent Assembly convened in Weimar, Ebert was elected to be the first president of the German Republic.